The Straits Budget, 22 May 1963

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NtWffAM* ■Seri*' Kuala Lumpur, May M, 1853. Price 40 cents (Malaya), or 1 thllUny. KDNA Wt.
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    • 181 2  -  N. V, SAMUEL Singapore C.M. LEE (S. T. May 15) seems to think that it would he a good idea to idtroduce water rationing from 0 to 9 a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. He is probably one of the lucky few who gets
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    • 128 2  -  LISTENER Singapore Fls high time the listeners of Radio Singapore got their money’s worth for their listening licences. The announcers are getting from bad to worse as far as English programmes are concerned. And we now have T.V. too! Some of the voices heard art simply irritating, while
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    • 38 2  -  J.C Singapore 18UGGEST that the Government replace the posting box at the Tlong Bahru Post Office as tt la too small One Is able to remove letters from the box even when It Is half full
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    • 38 2  -  R. LEWIS Singapore QUEEN8TOWN is developing fast and yet there is only one public telephone which is always out of order in Tanglin Halt. Hdw does one contact the police or a doctor in an emergency?
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    • 101 2  -  S.H.T. Singapore Fvlew of the severe drought, has the chairman of the Public Utilities Board thought of distilling fresh water from the sea to supplement the shortage of water. r I hear Gibraltar gets its fresh water from the sea by distillation, and in the
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    • 94 2  -  XR.L. WONG, J Singapore £2 ON the right-hand side of One Tree Hill there are three roads called Jalan Arnab, Jalan Kelawar and Jalan Tupal. Up to now no name boards have been put up for these three roads to the great Inconvenience of the residents and their
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    • 41 2  -  TEACHER Kota Bhanr \j ANY teachers In Kelan11 tan are Justifiably ashamed of the chief education office building in Kota Bharu. I think that the authorities concerned should demolish this eyesore before the monsoon winds <<o It for them.
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    • 25 2  -  PUZZLED Singapore fkPPOBITE my home ,is a public standpipe which is on for almost twentyfour hours a day in spite of the rationing
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    • 92 2  -  DAVID MARSHALL Singapore,.' THOSE of os who Mve here are so accustomed to the daily ..eights of Singapore that we are not conscious of the green loveliness of this Island, the charm of many of its scenes. Perhaps the most deUfhtM»tJi>aB' made scene In Singapore Is that area
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    • 113 2  -  HOUSEWIFE Singapore [BEFORE the Government considers cutting the present water rationing period of twelve hours daily they ought >to do something about the "people who are not yet on rationing. By this I mean the people who are lucky enough to live near the British Military Hospital.
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    • 37 2  -  VlCTIAt Singapore Is fhost refreshing to hear that the police are cracking down on cinema touts. But how about boys and even adults loitering at .various car parks? Is there a law to end this nuisance?
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    • 174 2  -  FRANCIS NO Hobart rE appeal by Opposition parties In Malaya for U.N. Intervention to bring about a postponement of the formation of Malaysia is receiving wide publicity in Australia to the dismay and embarrassment of Malayans In this country. While respecting the Opposition right to
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    • 46 2  -  LEARNER Singapore ii rhat state of nerves does a vehicles ex-. aminer expect to find in ft pupil who has been kept waiting two and a half hours for a booked driving test? It is disgraceful ana makes the booking system a farce. J
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    • 85 2  -  EmpText Singapore T'HE elimination of traffic lights at the junction of New Bridge Road and Upper Cross Street by a 1 -new system has certainly made a freer flow of traflfts possible. But a problem arises. -r r J|j Pedestrians wishing to cross narrow, Upper Cross Street must
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    • 220 2  -  SITPM Singapore r pHERE Is an \;gent nJ or~* a we.i ‘ucked nl ference library mi our dim The reference :■> m of tim National Librar s p&cjfl with students U\ the monfl togs as well as in tbl afternoons Text books a referenc!
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    • 228 2  -  DOCTOR Singapore THE Malay Mail of April 23 reported that “the Japanese Government Is considering ways 0 f making 'a sultabe gesture’ of regret for the wartime slaying of thousands of clvir Hans In Singapore.” In view of the Increasing co-operation In Industry and trade between
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    • 673 3 —Straits Times. May 13 [k o;v oason to question a bi!i:. <J the Federal and u authorities to con- t j ;i !.*ia outbreak in U acca Cut there are some Istions i’ t need answering. e of tiii -n is the apparent L c i vc.eeine.
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    • 173 3 —Straits Times, May 13 When Mr. Tan Siew Sin visited Bonn last year in search of financial aid for Malaya’s development plans, he was given assurances of West German loans towards tlie building of six deepwater berths at Butterworth. Understandably, Bonn’s agreement in principle carried with it the
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    • 697 3 —Straits Times, May 14 Indonesian students and others have been sternly reminded that the lifting of martial law is not the signal for a return to a liberal political outlook. While ideas ot liberalism no doubt vary, the wrecking and looting of ninety per cent of the
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    • 169 3 —Straits Times, May 14 A U.S. Peace Corps volunteer has confessed to finding Malaya very diflerent from what he had been led to think Conditioned by his instructors to expect physical hardship and “cultural shock”, he ha.been surprised to find that he is not required to live in
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    • 717 3 —Straits Times, May 15 The health authorities at last have begun to act as though they realise there is a cholera epidemic in Malacca They are prepared to close the schools, if necessary, and to control food going into or ou» of the State. There will
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    • 216 4 —Straits Times, May 15 The last series of local council elections, won resoundingly by the Alliance, left the control of a small number of authorities evenly shared between two parties. Two oi these, Temoh and Bidor—which were suspended by the State Government last October have now had their
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    • 664 4 —Straits Times, May 16 Yesterday’s payroll robbery in the heart of the Federal capital has put crime on the front page with a bang. It is the most daring holdup in a fast growing series of armed robberies, and unfortunately one of the most successful. Only the
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    • 269 4 —Straits Times, May 1C There is no reason to doubt that the initiative taken by the Federation Government to induce voluntary welfare organisations to co-ordinate their activities springs from the best of motives. Yet the Government should proceed with circumspection. For reasons which are perfectly easy n> understand,
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    • 375 4 —Straits Times, May 17 The effect of U.S. stockpile disposals on the tin price is not the only worry besetting the industry. In the search for I new, exploitable land the miners are frustrated by delays in dealing with applications. Security of tenure is a problem, and treatment
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    • 224 4 —Straits Times, May 17 The rats of the Kuala Lumpui Central Market are a fearsome breed—more than a match ioi the pusillanimous cats employ ed to keep them out. Traps art useless against their strength and cunning, and poison—while efficacious is not favoured The stricken rats, with a vengefulness
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    • 361 4 —Straits Times May IS With cholera suspected in the Johore towns of Muar and Tangkak, the Health Ministry has decided to impose a quarantine on Malacca where the epidemic first broke out 19 days ago. The inevitable question is whether the disease might have been prevented from spreading
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    • 167 4 name. lV 18 —Straits Time. In spite of the \va:r.ir.p the Vice-Chanceli admonitions of the 5tu:ec Union, senior under of the University of have been "ragging »es men on the sly. As tar known, the more ur.sa practices have been u Freshmen have hao only with jeers disarranged clothing.
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  • 952 5  -  Iftrst at kesang MORE CENTRES ON MAIN ROUTES TO AND FROM STATE TOMORROW by BASKARAN 1 MALACCA. May 13 ]{1G jab-on-road inoculion campaign is ing launched f re to protect ople entering and ivingthischolerafected State. The lirst of a series road blocks to op-and-jab all who e willing
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  • 229 5 PENANG, May 13 AUDIT officers in the Federation’s Co-operative Department are perturbed over the delay in the implementation of an agreement to recruit more stall to relieve the present shortage, and absorb serving temporary officers into the permanent esta- blisnment. The agreement, an
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  • 50 5 SEREMBAN, May 13. State assemblyman iGemasi Mr. Llm Kee Sal has both elected to be the new president of the Negri Sembilan Division of the Labour Party. Mr. Llm succeeds Mr. See Toh Fatt who held the post for three years and resigned two months ago.
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  • 329 5 KUALA LUMPUR. May 13 r rENGKU Abdul Rahman said today he hoped the A Aug. 31 date for Malaysia will not have to be postponed because of difficulties with Singapore over finance This was now the only issue to be settled. He feared that
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  • 129 5 PENANG, May 12. A campaign is now in progress to persuade all parents of deaf children to register them with the Ministry of Education to determine the incidence of deafness among children and adolescents. "This is being done through Government departments and
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  • 20 5 KLANO. May 14 —Mr. N S. Pakrisamv was re-elected president of the Klang South MIC branch last night.
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  • 540 6 IPOH, May, 15. miners, deeply concerned with 1 their perennial problem of land difficulties, still hope that state governments will adopt a more liberal policy. In its annual report lor I jG2, the F.M.S. Chamber of Mines again draws attention to land problems. It
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  • 51 6 KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 Three State Legislative Assembly members left nere today by air for a four-week study tour of Britain at the invitation of the British Government. They are Dato Yahaya bin Haji Mohammed Sah of the Pahang Legislative Assembly, Inche Mohammed Idris bin
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  • 30 6 SUNGEI PATANI. May 16—The Sultan Abdul Hamid Collect Dramatic Society will stag* John Galsworthy's 'The Skin Game.” at the Dav Training College. Alor Star on May 18.
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  • 22 6 RAWA'NG. May 16 —Inche Ha.ii Nor bin Hail Yusof has been elected chairman of the Ulu Selangor branch of Umno
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  • 637 6  -  All we want is to go on living in peace, but if it is threatened../ From DOUG LACKERSTEEN London May, 12 YIALAYA’S Deputy Premier and Defence Minister, Tun \bd U Kazak, last night stressed the lengths to which Malaya wasp* pared to go to
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  • 77 6 IPOH, May 12 The National Union of Bank Employees, fallowing the iejection by employers of the mediation efforts by the Government over bonus, has now "exhausted Its peaceful fight over the issue." The founder president of the mil n, Mr. P c Go nez, who is
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  • 27 6 KAJANG, May 14 A sub-com-rnittee ol the local Boy Scouts Association will meet at the Merchant s Club here tomorrow to arrange a buffet party.
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  • 205 6 ITIELUK ANSCX. Ml A 13. All 10 AUlancl councillors walked o:| of a town cou:.c;| meeting last r.iz'3 when Mr. K Rarril samy the sole re?:e| tentative of the Peol pie’s Progressive Parul o"’ the council. ro<? *1 c neak at the ad;ourrJ
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  • 36 6 KUALA LUMPUR Speaker of the y. t Assembly. Incite ;ri r. was today re-< the Belang< r mittee. \*ice-c^ a Other official' man. Mr I Ont It tary. Mr. K.T.H treasurer, Incite A
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  • 695 7 ‘IMPERTINENT’ SAYS SEENIVASAGAM I PENANG, May. 12. I TEXLKU ABDUL RAHMAN last night I u p. ated his advice to the Rulers to “keep M off politics. i I ,1 tiier reference to t n. ui of Perak s Hari ism of
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  • 117 7 KUALA LUMPUR, May 13. Tengku Abdul Rahman today described the remarks he had made about the Suitan of Perak and the Ruler r ply as an “unhappy, un fortunate incident.” Addressing an Umno gathering on May 11, the Tengku criticised the Perak Ruler for having attacked
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  • 36 7 SINGAPORE. May 13 —lnche M Ismail Rahim, assemblyman lor Geylang East will officially oprn the Mattar West Secondary Vocational School at Mattar Road, off Aljunied Road on May 15 at 730 p.m.
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  • 33 7 KUALA LUMPUR, May 14. Donations to the Lady Templer Tuberculosis Hospital Fund during April amounted to $7,279 The largest single donation was from the Austral Malay Tin Ltd.
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  • 34 7 KUALA LUMPUR. May 12. —'The National Association of Women's Institutes will hold a five-day course for 22 of its members at the Women's Institute headquarters in Petaling Jaya from May 13
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  • 115 7 PENANG, May 13—The City Council today approved the establishment of the first “metered zone” in George Town. “The first batch of parking meters will now be installed in some streets as from July 1,” the Mayor, Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew, told today’s meeting
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  • 151 7 PENANG, May 12 THE Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, said here last night that in trying to win over the Malays the United Democratic Party had resorted to the “trick” of making a Malay their leader.
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  • 231 7 KUALA LUMPUR, May 12. FATHER stood petrified as he saw his son being stabbed to death outside his home at Kampong Dollah, Imbi Road, last night. Mr L<»w Chla Hlan, 57, a glassware merchant In High Street was paying a taxi far about 15
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  • 88 7 ALOR STAR, May 12—Dato (Dr> Cheah r loon Lok, president of the Kedah MCA State branch, was unanimously re-elected chairman •of the Alor Star MCA town ward branch last night. Messrs Llm Bee Hung and Lim Wei Pin were elected vice-chairman with Mr. Cheam Soon Ghee
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  • 67 7 PENANG, May 13—A mother and daughter who were to have sailed for India yesterday evening cancelled their trip at the last minute when they found $l,OOO worth of jewellery missing from their cabin. Instead, Madam Gopal Kaur and her daughter, G. Kaur, 17, returned to
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  • 60 7 ALOR STAR. May 12—A 15-year-old girl reported missing on May 9 was found in a house near Selambau Estate, in Sungei Patani, last night. The gifl. A. Munlamah, was found by her father. S Ayerpaha. a tapper who went looking for her when she failed
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  • 592 8 KUALA LUMPUR, May 12. TWENTY THOUSAND units of anti-cholcra vaccine from Pakistan, part of an order for one million units, arrived in Singapore by air tonight and will be rushed to Malacca to check the spread of the disease. The first consignmi
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  • 149 8 KUALA LUMPUR. May 13. The Malayan Highway Code contains a subtle reminder to motorists against necking while on the road. Today th e Chief Traffic Police Officer. Deputy Supt. Mansor bin Mohamed Noor. drew the attention of motorists to this little-known clause. He
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  • 57 8 SINGAPORE. May 14—The Commissioner for India in Singapore and High Commissioner for India in Malaya. Mr. Y. K. Puri, today donated 117' books on India to the National Library on behalf of his government. The books include the works of Rabindranath Tagore and biographies of
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  • 37 8 KUALA LUMPUR. May 14 Visiting Indian journalists who attended the Afro-Aslan conference in Jakarta recently were entertained to lunc.i todav bv the Press attache to the Indian High Commission here, Mr. V. V Nevrekar.
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  • 159 8 KUALA KANGSAR. May 12 The Sultan of Perak said today he would stand fully by his Hari Raya Haji address at the Riduaniah Mosque here in which he criticised some elected reoresentatives in the State Legislative Assembly for not carrying out their responsibilities.
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  • 348 8 IPOII. Iviav 13 'JHE Federations Chief Game \Y U Kn James Aw, has the answer to rr p ol the audacious rats that are wor keepers in Kuah Lumpur’s Centiai Maib area. “Tell them to try keeping small pytii n< and
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  • 148 8 SINGAPORE. May i i h Bansan bO>lUl|> luilu\ iu„ denmed what u Limrj* “the high-baiund nunii.i in which the iVo^ Action i*art> went about reusing citizenship ot puin.ia, u tainees. A party statement person s ngnt t.. i. w ship must not i.e a u
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  • 47 8 JOHORE BAHRU May Wee Lee Fong v. chairman of the J, t or-*r.c3; the Labour Party a u tr,c meeting here today Other offic. i Vice-chairmen. Inc! M£ Haji Salleh and Mr Seng; secretary. Ml “an Siong; and treasui M r Ching Siong.
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  • 140 8 A sure place for women on the farm he says KUALA LUMPUR. May 13. Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Hussein an assistant lecturer at ,the Agriculture College Sordang said today that there was evidence that Malayan women made good farmers. Inche Hamid, addressing 32 women who are attending a four-day
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  • 168 9 I SIK (North Malaya), May 13. ■l'NGL E-COXDITIONED troops of the Malaccad 2nd Battalion. Royal Australian Regiment. m.‘ on tive jungle service last week. Hl m Army comH said the AusH tr.u'ps are seeking Hcr.r.. bandit; a ong the H. at the re- 1
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  • 121 9 liPOH. May 13.—The case of a Pu ice Field Force inspector, who was worried about his car tyres being stolen but found his transistor radio missing instead, was reported to the police here this morning. Inspector Lee Hong Chye had left hi.s car unlocked
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  • 24 9 May 13—Mr. been elected preH'; Library Association are vice-presi- 1 bin Ali; «;e;retH i Aziz oin Shaik isurer. Mr John
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  • 54 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 13— The Union of Post Oilier Workers Malaya has awarded 24 scholarships' worth 51.920 to children of members in English secondary schools this year. It has been awarding scholarships since the scholars up fund was started in 1956 The scholar ships are tenable
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  • 75 9 K* r May 14— A I r was bound to-,. '"for one year .kidnapping his whom he B months ago. remarry her in a have done so manner,” the Court president, Inche Abdul Man an bin Othman, told Zakaria bin Ahmad. 22. Zakaria was convicted or
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  • 78 9 t WORK-TO-RULE to back bonus claim EMPLOYEES of the Mercantile Bank in Kuala Lumpur, who began a work-to-rule campaign on May IS together with their colleagues in Penang,Ipoh and Seremban, seen outside their office this morning. Most of them arrived at 8.30 a.m. but did not enter
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  • 77 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 13.—The Mentri Be.sar ol Selangor and hairman of the Slate National Monument Fund, Dato Abu Bakar jin Baginda, today received a cheque cf $1.230 50 for the fund ironi Ur M. 1 Mohammed at the State Council Chamber. The amount was collected from
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  • 131 9 pENANG, May 14. Tnere is no danger of any Penang Hill Railway cable snapping This assurance was given today by the railway manager, Mr. R. K. Bogle, following a report that a haulage cable had been found displaced on May 10. Mr. Bogle said
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  • 62 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 13—The Mr. Wade succeeds Mr C. M. New Zealand High Commissioner- Bennett, who returned to New Zeadestgnate to Malaya. Mr. R. H land on April 29. Wade, will arrive on May 17, the He has been New Zealand High New Zealand High
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  • 255 9 I/UALA LUMPUR, May 14.—Women do not know the first principles of thrifty shopping, says British author Robert Millar. in a recently published book. “The Affluent Sheep," he says: “They are prepared to put up with anything." But Malayan women
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  • 65 9 SINGAPORE, May 13—Malaysian artists have been invited to toke part in the 14th open exhibition of the Singapore Arts Society to be held at the Singapore Polytechnic from July 5-14. Sketches, paintings and sculpj tures by artists in Singapore, the i Federation and the Borneo territories
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  • 145 9 SINGAPORE, May 13 IHE Barisan Sosialis today condemned what it termed as “the high-handed manner” in which the People’s Action Party Government went about revoking the citizenship of political detainees. A party statement said: “A person’s right to citizenship must not be dependent
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  • 542 10 ‘NO DELIBERATE OMISSIONS' ftUALA LUMPUR, May 14. The general manager of the Malayan Railway, Dato Ahmad Perang, said today there was no question of any delaying tactics or deliberate omission in implementing certain items of agreement that ended the 23-day rail strike
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  • 289 10 SINGAPORE, May 14 MAJOR American universities are eager i 0! iU closer ties with the University ol Singapore, Various studies set by these universities havi been put to Professor K. Tregonning. Professor oi History of the local university who is due back he-j
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  • 130 10 SHOWERS AGAIN FOR S’ PORE SINGAPORE, May l4. Moderate showers broke the dry spell over parts of Singapore today as the Public Utilities Board was looking into the possibility of making rain. To meet th e needs of the three dry months ahead, the board is also considering the feasibility
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  • 44 10 MIRI, May 13 —Mr. John Tan has been elected chairman of the AllSarawak Association, which has been formed “to promote and maintain harmony amcng Sarawak s many races and to assist local charitable organisations." Miss Mary Jolly was elected sec-retary-general.
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  • 201 10 SINGAPORE, May 14 THE British High Commissioner in Malaya, Sir Geofroy Tory, who arrived here today for talks with Lord Selkirk, said that there was “plenty of work to be done” before Malaysia comes into being. “There are only about three months
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  • 186 10 SINGAPORE. May 13Indonesia's opp.Mtion to Malaysia ha* not in any way changed India s staunch support for the Federation, the Indian Deputy Minister of External Affairs Mr Dinesb Singh, said tonight. Mr. Singh flew into Singapore tonight from Rangoon on a five-day fact-finding visit
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  • 528 11 alliance confident I IT CAN REPEAT I |TS SUCCESSES AT Ibidor. temoh I KUALA LUMPUR, May 13. Municipal and Town Council elecBl nuns, to be held from next month to ■August, will be regarded as a trial run for the Bnnumicntary and state elections in July
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  • 130 11 Kuala lumpur. M.iv 15—More than K IJ l°t> have been bookby 42 firms for the K r d Malaysia K ra dt‘ and Industry Ex•ibition to be held here ■fOm Aug. 3 to Sept. 7. ■r t; i X r l< statcd today by
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  • 125 11 THANOMJITY Na Rangong, 14, (left) and her sister Linda Na Ranong. 10. admiring one of the 100 paintings of five wellknown Thai artists displayed at the National Art Gallery in Ampang Road. Kuala Lumpur on May 12. The exhibition was opened by their father,
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  • 43 11 KUCHING, May 14.—Sarawak will be in mourning tomorrow for the late Rajah of Sarawak, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke. The funeral will be in London tomorrow A memorial service will be held In St. Thomas Cathedral. Kunchlng. at 5 p.m.
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  • 170 11 SINGAPORE, May 13 lam, o, rate ■L* Sln^apore ■year S Went U P last l\v mv L r a downI A f in 1961. |4or V to the 1962 |Mu>:j„ w hc Registry of ■the sV, ..••Jarrlages and |iiCourt, pub■417 there were ■man 4 a nd
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  • 148 11 KUALA LUMPUR, May 13—A little warning gadget which whistles when a tyre is under-inflated is now on sale in Britain, the National Rubber Bureau reported today. This “tyre whistler.” developed in France, will sound an alarm as soon as the tyre
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  • 133 11 OINGAPORE, May 14— emergency meeting of waterfront workers will be convened by the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association to discuss the one-week “ultimatum” given by the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, on May 11. The association has been asked to settle its internal
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  • 33 11 SINGAPORE. May 13 —The Second Industrial Arbitration Court will resume hearing of a bonus dispute between B.S. Mubarnk and Brothers Ltd. and the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers Union tomorrow.
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  • 677 12  -  Jabs for all if epidemic spreads: ‘Not true Govt was unprepared By NELSON RUTHERFURD and K. BASKARAN: Malacca, May 14 are to be imposed on all foodstuffs sent from Malacca to other parts of the Federation because of the cholera epidemic. Haji Khalid bin Awang
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  • 102 12 PENANG, May 13 A dance hostess, Ong bay Beng, 23 (above), has withdrawn her notice of appeal against a judgment by the First Magistrate, Mr. Ng Mann Sau, dismissing her claim for maintenance from a Penang millionaire, Loh Boon Siew. Ong last January claimed
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  • 40 12 TAIPING, May 15—Hong Kong film actress Miss Lai Ming will be in Taiping from May 16 to May 18 to appear at the New Sun Cinema in conjunction with the screening of one of her films.
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  • 232 12 LUALA LUMPUR. May 13. Mr. K.V. Thaver, 61. has resigned his post as secretary of the National Union of Teachers, which he held for five years. “I am resigning for personal reasons." he said today. "I have no immediate plans." Mr. Thaver served notice on
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  • 298 12 KUALA LUMPUR, ,M a v 14 A USTRALIA has promised to supp|v\i a avi with equipment worth $500,000 for a en high frequency telecommunications service between Penang and Bangkok. This was announced here today by the Australian High Commissioner. Mr. T. K. Critchley, when
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  • 46 12 Reuter. JAKARTA. May 14 Between 30 and 40 people were In hospital In the Jakarta suburb of Pasar Rebo suffering from acute smallpox a local newspaper. It quoted "well-informed ources,” and said it was teared that the disease would spread to other suburbs.
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  • 223 12 Kuala lumpur. Ma; 14. Two Ft government departments—the Public Trustee’s office and the Official Assign* —have b e < n amalgamated into o’. The head of thi? net department will be wr. a> the Public Trustee a::i Official Assignee Government is
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  • 577 13  - Robinson’s cashier shot 11,500 PAY GRAB HUNDREDS WATCH AS ROBBERS OPEN FIRE TWICE, then escape in waiting car in busy road bv PADMAN GOPAL: Kuala Lumpur, May 15 0-*\X 0 armed thugs escaped with a 11.500 payroll after hooting the cashier of [o bin son’s in traffic[.mmed Mountbatten load here
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  • 145 13 PORT SWETTENHAM, May 15. A courting couple were held up at the old airstrip here last night night by three men armed with daggers. Wong Thong Sum. 2(>. a wharf labourer, said today that his girlfriend, Ng Ah Moi, 19, later ran away and
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  • 135 13 SINGAPORE, May 14 Vice-Admiral A. H. Khan (above), C-in-C of the Pakistan Navy, arrived here last night for two-day goodwill visit. He will meet British military chiefs, including Admiral Sir Varyl Begg, C-in-C of the Far East Unilied Command. Vice-Admiral Khan is on his
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  • 53 13 KOTA BHARU. May 14. —The dr s* roved 30 acres of young rubber trees at the Yuen Hin Estate in Pasir Puteh. 28 miles from here, yesterday. The owner of the estate, Mr. Wong Yew Whye, today estimated the loss at $50,000 The trees were about
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  • 263 14  -  By RUDY BELTRAN: Kuala Lumpur, May 15 p JP and classical records worth more than $2(i,000 were stolen from the Music City record shop in Bukit Bintang Road shortly before dawn today. The thugs who raided the p emlses, entering trom behind, also took: THE
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  • 71 14 KUALA LUMPUR. May 15.-Fifty-eight paintings by 55 Australian artists were unpacked at the National Art Gallery here today. They arrived this morning by sea from Sydney and by road from Port Swettenham. Total value of the paintings is $56,000. They will be exhibited at the National Art
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  • 76 14 kUALA LUMPUR, May i5 Three youths were charged in the Third Magistrate’s Court here today with disorderly behaviour while being detained in a police lock-up yesterday morning. Chua Sin. 17. Yens Kew. 18 and Chee Mol Moi. 20. were aliped to have fought in n lork-up In
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  • 47 14 KUALA LUMPUR, May 15—The Men’r* Besar of Kedah. Dato Sved Omar Shnhabuddln. and his wife returned here bv air today from i nllgrimage to Mecra At th< airport to meet them was the Prime Minister Teneku Abdul Rahman who is Dato Syed Omars brother-in-law
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  • 600 14 MALACCA. May 15 Operation Jab’' swung into top gear for Malacca’s 350,000 people today as 23 inoc u lation centres throughout the state began functioning at 2 p.m. By nightfall an estimated 20.000 people had been inoculated. Another 12 cases were admitted to
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  • 214 14 The ‘rebels’ who seek to return —a warning ITU ALA LUMPUR, May 15. The liaison officer of the Malayan Chinese Association. Mr. Yap Kon Choon. suggested tonight that anv application from the 1959 MCA rebels to rejoin the organisation should first be considered by party headquarters. He was speaking at
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  • 22 14 SEREMBAN. Negri Sembi Malayan Techn '.i lf Vwill hold a d>' j-jr.f George V Scho to raise funds National Patriot.
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    1078 15  -  the disease first appeared in MALAYA IN 1819-144 YEARS AGO -AND THEN, TOO, IN MALACCA by Dr. G.W. FIELD Senior Medical Officer, Malacca Agricultural Medical Board and a former director of IMR 1*1 HE endemic homes of cholera seem to be the delta of the Canges, and the Yangtse
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  • 350 15 SINGAPORE, May 14. Employees of Malayan Banking Ltd. in Robinson Road and its 15 sub-branches in Singapore are now refusing to work overtime. Like 350 employees at four Mercantile Bank branches in the Federation, who continued their work-t.o-rule today, they object to the present policy
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  • 231 15 KUALA LUMPUR, May 1 5 Re presentatives of about 50 voluntary welfare organisations will meet at the Tengku Abdul Rahman Hall here on May 11 to discuss establishing a national co-ordinating and advisory body. The proposed body will SEF. that the work ot voluntary
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  • 34 15 SINGAPORE. May 16— The Minister tor National Development. Mr Tan Kla Gan, will launch a new water boat. Ayer Molek, at FCeppel Harbour on May 23 at l O'30 a m
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  • 494 16 KUALA LUMPUR, May, 15. THE GOVERNMENT today approved an emergency vote of $819,400 to fight cholera. The acting Minister of Health, H-aji Khalid bin Awang Osman, announcing this, said it was now considered unnecessary to close schools in Malacca. THE ARRIVAL of longawaited supplies
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  • 224 16 KUALA LUMPUR. May 14. A municipal health cleaning officer, Inche Zainal Izzudin, today saved a boy by throwing: a rope round him and pulling: him awa.v from a “live” electrified post. The boy. whose name was given as Ah Keong. 15, was struggling to
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  • 186 16 SINGAPORE. May 16. POUR opposition parties in Singapore are to form a united front to oppose Malaysia. Representatives of the Barlsan Sosialis. the United Democratic Party, the Party Rakyat and the Workers' Party, met on May 13 to .>et up a working committee to
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  • 33 16 IPOH, May 16 A woman. Hoo Ncrit Yoon. 30. reporter! to the police this morning that a 1 watch worth $3O and $l9 cash were stolen from her hotel room.
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  • 86 16 Kuala lumpur, May 15.—The fast expanding Royal Malayan Navy is looking for young Malayans keen on adventure and travel to join as cadet officers Successful candidates will b e sent to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth in September Applicants must be federal citizens between the ages
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  • 58 16 PENANG. May 16 Singapore soprano Hwang Phay Ching will cive a recital of English and Chinese songs at St. George's Girls School here at 8.30 p.m. on Mav 23. Madam Hwang, who will be performing under the auspices of the Penang Arts Council, will be accompanied
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  • 278 16 Vc A LUMP-jp May 15. tional Unioi n. ;,y„ t J tion Work, s tod a came out in full sun port for the <• Malaysia. 1 01 The Union 11, run official publican 5 NUPW. 1„ lt i u > compared Malays.,
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  • 81 16 KUALA LUMPUR. —Sixty boys and n.r bers of the Ma a i a ion of Youth :v p ,n-3' stage an “Am ■< l (plays from the Opera> at the Dev t nprt dan Pustnka U “V# Road here, on 3 vf The youths
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  • 22 16 PENANG. May la- p vriith o»-"’ mhatt m bilv, which was stpor 4 last Sunday. ha> to this Sunday.
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  • 325 17 warning notices to STAFF AT PENANG PENANG, May, 15. 'IGHIV employees of the Mercantile Bank 4 here stopped work and “waited to be ached" when five of their colleagues were iven instant dismissal notices by the manageient this afternoon. Earlier, all the 85
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  • 169 17 Kuala lumpur, May is —T h e commander-in-chief of the Brunei rebels. Gen. Zulkifli. said in a broadcast over the Voice of Ka.imantan Utara radio that the people of the Borneo territories would always owe "absolute” allegiance to President Soekarno. He made the
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  • 464 17 WIDOW: I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG IPOH, May 17 \|HS. Corry Ruth Berthel Baxter, 24, widow of a planter, said here this morning that the day her husband was found murdered, an estate conductor came to her house “crying so much that
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  • 209 17 KUALA LUMPUR. May 17. 'rHE Malayan Chinese Association is to look into the possibility of “welcoming back” more former members because it needs caoablp npnnip Its secretary-general. Mr. Cheah Theam Swee. said in a statement today the part} needed all capable people to unite
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  • 30 17 Prayers f or ra i n B.sin’g W r l 17—The MisB (SinsaDore MiB que) in Bukit ■i”' 1 v nocial praver ■tii May 19 at 8 I Estate Square.
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  • 53 17 4 LOR STAR. May 16 Jitra police detained three men yesterday after stopping a car at the 16th mile of the Jitra-Kangar road The car was heading for Perils from Alor Star when it was intercepted at a road block. A dagger was found under
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  • 28 17 KUALA LUMPUR. May 17. Thai International has announced that its Royal Orchid flight from Bangkok to Singapore will not stop here on May 27.
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  • 113 17 SINGAPORE, May 17 The Barisan Sosialis is opposed to “all forms” of Malaysia concepts. The latest issue of the Plebeian, the party organ said: ‘‘We oppose Malaysia, irrespective of whether it is the plan or concept. We oppose Malaysia and we do not want Malaysia.”
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  • 314 18  -  ‘/X£ BE BACK LATER SAID DRIVER... BUT HE DIDN’T TURN UP By RUDY BELTRAN: Kuala Lumpur, Ma 16 r jlIE two gangsters who staged the $11,500 Robinson payroll grab yesterday seat the get-away car for servicing and a wash soon after. They did not reclaim
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  • 167 18 Kuala lumpur, May 16. The National Union ol Commercial Workers today tnreatened industrial action against 12 Japanese commercial firms for withholding recognition. In a press statement. Mr. A.B. Gomez, general secretary of the union, said the 12 firms had not responded to several reminders calling on
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  • 49 18 KUALA LUMPUR, May 1,6 Malayan Railway’s carriage shop foreman, Mr. S D Jeyawardena. left by air todav to attend a three-month seminar on rolling stock engineering in Tokyo. The seminar is being sponsored by the Japan National Railway under the Colombo Plan Technical Cooperation programme.
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  • 140 18 SINGAPORE, May 16—The new Japanese ConsulGeneral in Singapore, Mr Hiroto Tanaka (above), today declined to discuss apartheid in South Africa, where he last served. Accompanied by his wife, Mr. Tanaka flew into Singapore last night from Pretoria, where he was Consul-General. He
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  • 217 18 IFOH, May 16. Two smugglers gave a Customs party a hectic* two-mile chase on the main trunk road before they were cornered in a stone quarry live miles south of here yesterday evening. A road block was set In Temoh. 30 miles south ol
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  • 189 18 I/'UALA LUMPUR, lv May 16. Au Australian finance company has. in partnership with the Chartered Bank, started a new $5 million finance company to serve Malaya and Singapore. Known as the Credit Corporation (Malaysia) Ltd., thp new company will engage In hire purchase
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  • 147 18 K U^tL^^R.Ma n Federatio: a Jfe-'y f M chltects. Mr Kh-*o» A’l said today that used too many colofej discriminate y n, ni rs 9 their home deco hil He was commenting 0 I statement he M Devenport. heid'nf ICI stucioin .vuiVb cited
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  • 64 18 SINGAPORE. Min lii-Jjj Nancy Lieu «above'. W Singapore 196!. ni ill aW® the “Asia Week" which opcn> on 1 U. at Christchurch. SevW land. To make the people of Zealand bettei acqiiaiM" with Asian fashions, w cy, a Malayan \irway$ hostess, will carry a
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  • 55 18 KUALA LUMP- new military a't v ed Arab Re pub calai Colonel Saad for 1 arrived here t visit. miiiufl Col. Saad. wli attache to the t >h *"1 fence 11 Burma, will havt Rangoon. H to He said tha‘ 1 courage an exi
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  • 883 19 K(jA LUMPUR, ray 19 Itjcki t '-3 Cup horse I m rial Joy scor~j* ting triumph I s0 f /ing here to|y I Is3 Onnp| I jaw kiv. j «r. i.’ Eber s E PI I; N IIERO 8.8 X (1061 -.59) 1
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  • 141 19 Kuala LUMPUR, Maty: 19. Senator Chan r Kwong Hon. president of>the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce, today called for more trade between Malaya and Formosa. He was speaking at a tea party at the Chinese Assembly Hall here to welcome an 11-man trade mission from
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  • 185 19 SINGAPORE, May 16. °Dr. Goh Keng Swee. Finance Minister, tod a y opened Singapore's first industrial research unit. It will serve the State’s 2.300 industrial establishments. He said the work of the unit, situated In the Polytechnic grounds, was directed towards practical problems which
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  • 51 19 KUALA LUMPUR, May. 12—Facilities for New Zealanders residing In the Federation voting In the Auckland by-election on May 11 will be available at the New Zealand diplomatic offices until t p.m. on May 19. The by-electlon will be for the Auckland electorate of Orey
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  • 41 19 KUALA LUMPUR, May 19. Mr. P. L. Chin, a retired teacher, will speak on "acquiring entering into the living the partnership of life” at the Kuala Lumpur Psychology Club at 29, Ipoh Road at 4 p.m. on Sunday.
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  • 739 19 DOLLAR RUMIMI A. Malay Riant $3.40: limit 60 cent*; 0. Lint an* 12.01; Bedferd $1.70; Baratn $2.80; Kimpn $2.27 to $2.22 to $2.20 to $3.40 to $8.4$; N. Sgrandah $2.40 la *2.48: $2- Bason $2.20; 0. ■•nut $1.40. •TBRLtMO RUBBER*: Bangawan 444.; Bartam Can. 2a. 414.; Oharaanaaa 2a.
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    • 49 19 BIG SWEEP VC. Jit;* U4 No. *****6 2nd No. 24M4I TOTAL POOL $154,958 $19,17$ M N% *****3 9,588 UjT**" Slartera ($958 m*h): No*. 217n$ *****1 *****3 *****7 *****6 *****4 *****9 *****$ *****5 *****5. CocuotaUon ($852 eaefc): Mm. 3 *****7 *****2 *****7 > *****1 *****$ *****2 *****7 A *****8 147jM9 *****9.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 502 20 •THE last two day. 1 trading in May produced heavy liquidation which was only absorbed at a three-quarter cent discount to June, say H.C.B. ft Co. Ltd. in their current survey of the Malayan Rubb* Market. However, as soon as seller ceased to press the
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    • 323 20 rt following is a complete list of revised quotations .ssued by the Malayan Stock Exchange on Friday, May 17. INDUSTRIALS o. g. r V /d kf Aten orda 8.60 Atlas ice m O Truetaee 5.00 8.00 »<>■*»<* 1.65 1.58 C.a Holding* g/9 8/10ft 'tee ft* S4Mit
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    • 1520 20 From Our Market Correspondent IT WAS not an exciting week on the Malayan 1 Stock Exchange and there was little enough for investors to get their teeth in. The “steam 0 seemed to have gone out or industrials while at the same time there was
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    • 34 20 RUBBER TIN (P«r ft.) (per picul). M*y 11. 7I S, cU. 9458.50 H. 74* cU 9459.18 ft 15. 74 > ets. 9459.87 ft 18. 75* «U. *****0 IT. 78 eta. 9459.15 It. 9459.50
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    • 19 20 (M«n.g,rt »rlMO i.w m W-tESTr. >g Ig Second h** W 1.00* iurUM °*r?gj** «7i?* < Hong Kong wmoty).
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    • 28 20 MAY 17. MALAYAN RUBBER PRICE: 75 cento (down three eighths of t cent). v TIN: 9459.25 (down 12.25). Estimated unofficial offering 249 tons (down 19 tons).
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    • 32 20 PARIT BUNTAR, May if. The District Ofrioer, Krlan inohe Osman Kairuddln bln MowiU addre9B Chinese iisnermen, community leaders and businessmen in Tan Jong Plan* on LtMpSS ,n vlllage pKtel
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    • 62 20 f SINGAPORE o.i t( *a Iferee who Is ar,„ e3 rf ,J a dispute over ltr iM -by the Indust’ a iltffl Court may be r > n lS i ance of 130 a ort he la engaged j| or in the aften J
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